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Caring for Creation – An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis - Hardcover

Oelschlaeger, Max

 
9780300058178: Caring for Creation – An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis

Synopsis

This work argues that religion - blamed for contributing to the ecological crisis - provides an ethical context that will help solve the problem. The approach suggests that the environmentally positive aspects in various Western creation stories demonstrate religion's conservation potential.

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This timely book argues that religion has an indispensable role to play in solving the ecological crisis. Examining a broad range of Western religious traditions from conservative Christianity to Goddess feminism, Max Oelschlaeger shows that religion can provide an ethical context that will help people become sensitive to the environment and elect leaders who are genuinely responsive to environmental problems.

Synopsis

This work argues that religion - blamed for contributing to the ecological crisis - provides an ethical context that will help solve the problem. The approach suggests that the environmentally positive aspects in various Western creation stories demonstrate religion's conservation potential.

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